Beheading has a long history. The following is a list of notable people who were beheaded, arranged alphabetically by country or region and with date of decapitation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_were_beheaded
interesting list, but they added beheaded by means of accident, which doesn’t really count in my book. I will say one thing however, it seems like the knife they used in the middle-east is much sharper than south america’s.